Digital footprint: On the Internet, a digital footprint is the word used to describe the trail, traces or footprints that people leave online. So that means anytime you do or write something online, there will remain a trace even if you delete it.
Media Usage: Media usage is the sum of information and entertainment on the Internet taken in by an individual or group.
A. Identify the problem: Design an appropriate website that is an introduction page about yourself. This should include information about you, and could include your future goals, career objective, education, interests, and skills. Think of this as a mini-online resume.
B. Brainstorm solutions: Brainstorm your own ideas (on paper or computing device). Then share your brainstorm with a partner to get their suggestions.
C. Select a design or build a model or prototype: Create a draft of your ideal web site, writing out what you want to say, what web sites you will link to, and images you want to include (being sure to follow copyright rules).
D. Test and Evaluate: Test and evaluate your design by showing it to a small group of classmates where you each explain your own designs and content. Take turns and ask questions and offer suggestions to help your classmate improve their design.
E. Optimize the design: Optimize your design by making the changes suggested to improve it.
F. Share the solution: Share or post your final design with your teacher.
Part Two
1. Check with your teacher to see if there is a preferred tool (e.g., Weebly, Google Sites, Wix, About.me or alternate) for creating a web presence.
2. Part of creating your portfolio is to develop a web presence that has a professional purpose: demonstrating your tech-savvy skills and knowledge to others. Portraying yourself accurately and appropriately is important. Choose a website tool to create your web presence.
3. When you have chosen a website tool, go to the site and create an account (use the tutorials below as needed)
HOT TIP: Avoid sharing your last name; your user name should never include your first and last name. A better choice is your first name followed by your last initial.
4. Use your final design completed in Step One and use it for the web page. Do not publish it until your teacher has checked it over with you.
Algorithms: An algorithm is a detailed step-by-step instruction set or formula for solving a problem, or completing a task such as recipe or programming a robot.
Digital footprint: On the Internet a digital footprint is the word used to describe the trail, traces or footprints that people leave online. So that means anytime you do or write something online, there will remain a trace even if you delete it.
Convey: To convey is to communicate a message or information.
I found a picture of my mom
Web presence: Once you have posted on the web, you now have a web presence. This cannot be deleted as there will always be a digital trace that can be found by various searching techniques.
Design process: The design process is a systematic problem-solving strategy that designers follow to come up with a solution to a problem.
Empathy: Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Choice Board: A choice board is a graphic organizer or table that allows students to choose different ways about a particular concept.
Social Responsibility: Social responsibility is the way in which individuals are accountable for online actions that are ethically sensitive toward social, economic and environmental issues.
Social Media: Social Media is the form of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) where users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content.
Meme: A meme is an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online, especially through social media.
Cyberbullying: Cyberbullying is the verbal bullying of someone (as a classmate) through the use of often anonymous electronic communication (as online posts or text messages).
Chat: To chat is to take part in an online discussion in a chat room.
Culture: Culture is the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.
Forum: A forum is a medium (such as a newspaper or online service) of open discussion or expression of ideas.
Discussion Board: A discussion board is a place online that is used for public discussion of a specific topic and on which users can submit or read messages.
Digital Media: Digital media refers to electronic devices and media platforms such as computers, cell phones, digital video, social networking sites, the Internet, video games, and virtual worlds that allow users to create, communicate, and interact with one another or with the device or application itself.
Media Balance: Media balance is the use of media in a way that feels healthy and in balance with other life activities (family, friends, school, hobbies, etc.).
Habit: A habit is something we do automatically without thinking repeatedly.
Unplug: To unplug is engaging in activities that don't involve using devices, apps, or the internet.
Digital addiction: Digital addiction is a type of addiction characterized by a dependence on the use of digital technologies such as cell phones and computers.
Blog: It is a personal website or web page on which an individual records opinions, links to other sites, etc. on a regular basis.
Elements: Elements are what are displayed on a webpage such as images, headings, text.